“My anticipation is one day doctors will inject robotic ‘scrubbers’ they will pilot to remove arterial plaque as an outpatient procedure.”
There’s already a cheap, safe, non-invasive way to do this: taking high doses (non-toxic) of vitamin C and lysine.
Dr. Linus Pauling received unshared Nobel Prizes for his discoveries, including this.
But two inexpensive un-patentable supplements do not help the bottom line of hospitals where heart bypass surgeries are performed.